There was funding issues last year. 2011 may get better.
There are few PHD students directly coming from Mainland. One Chinese student I knew got his MS in the U.S. first.
MS may not have funding. There are two options: thesis and exam.
Seattle is a fabulous city to live in and Stat Department is relatively small, which I prefer.
UW is the best school in the Northwest (WA, OR, ID, etc.). I won't worry too much about finding a job : )
come on...microsoft is in WA... they should need some statisticians
hyacinth 发表于 2010-9-9 14:59
M$ has a very good relationship w/ UW. There are some M$ people went to the Stat Department to get a degree.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center hires biostatistician.
Google has an office in Seattle. I know a statistician working at Google.
Amazon hires statistician as well. A former post-doc is working for Amazon.
There are some consulting firms in Seattle as well.
Weyerhaeuser (http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/) has a team of statisticians. I went there for a tour once.